Archives for
May 2012

Facebook users are rallying around a campaign to boycott Spirit Airlines, after the carrier refused to refund the cost of a dying veteran's flight. Jerry Meekins, a 76-year-old former marine, requested a refund on his $197 flight to New Jersey from F...

More and more hot new phones are starting to show up on all of the major carriers running the latest version of Android, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, with some tasty tablets being released, too. While the new iPad is undoubtedly a great piece of technolog...

The Daily, a News Corp.-owned daily news publication that launched exclusively on the iPad 15 months ago, is continuing to expand to new platforms with the launch of an iPhone edition Thursday. The app is relatively basic, lacking the creative design...

Note: The video contains explicit language and is definitely not safe for work! The meme who parties too hard is coming to an iTunes account near you. Scumbag Steve, whose real name is Blake Boston, has come full circle on his unintentional Internet ...

International webcam technology company EarthCam has released a two-minute time-lapse video showing the construction of the One World Trade Center, in honor of it overtaking the Empire State Building to become to the tallest building in New York. SEE...

You've probably been receiving "wrong number" phone calls for as long as you can remember, but have you ever been contacted by a wrong number on Google Voice? More importantly, has the resulting instant message conversation even been as funny as this...

The Best of Instagram Series is presented by T-Mobile. Its 4G Tweet Race, a week-long campaign launching May 3, pits Twitter users against one another in a daily, frantic race for retweets. There are 7 races, and the winners of each heat win a new HT...

It's hard enough to make one viral-worthy video. Now imagine creating and running an actual YouTube channel with weekly video updates for millions of viewers who expect this all the time? That's basically a full-time job in itself. Still, the people ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol are developing Ecobot, an eco-friendly robot that decomposes once its mission is completed. Dr. Jonathan Rossiter, a senior lecturer in the University's engineering mathematics department, received two years' ...

We've been hearing the rumors for months, and now Samsung has gotten official with the newest member of its Galaxy line of smartphones, the Galaxy S III. Samsung announced the most anticipated Android handset of the year Thursday at an event in Londo...

With its explosive growth rate, Pinterest has become this year's social media darling. Now that it's gained significant traction, it's looking to go international -- or shall we say, "pinternational." The photo-centric website announced in a blog pos...

The iPad is once again the undisputed heavyweight champion of the tablet world. Apple's "magical" tablet re-asserted its dominance of the market following a period that saw both the launch of the latest model and a drop-off in sales of its chief comp...

UPDATE: Facebook has confirmed the offering. A press statement reads, "Facebook, Inc. is offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 157,415,352 shares of Class A common stock. We will not receive...

If you're a Kindle Fire owner, you can now get the latest free update to version 6.3.1. It features parental controls, some neat sharing features and more practical movie rental times. Not sure which version you're currently running? The Amazon websi...

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. As marketing budgets and priorities shift, tech vendors must embrace digital and social media to change how they relate to prospects. IDC’s Rich Vancil surveyed marketers on spending plans. Learn mo...

Rumors run rampant about the next iPhone, but now a reliable source has provided specific and tantalizing details. Adding to the existing rumor of a four-inch screen on the new iPhone is info obtained by Jeremy Horwitz of iLounge, who says not only w...

Dan Loeb, an activist investor in Yahoo, is alleging that CEO Scott Thompson lied to shareholders and the SEC about getting a computer science degreeand is calling on the board to take immediate action. The letter also accuses Director Patti Hart of ...

Facebook announced the price for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 per share Thursday afternoon. The company will offer 337,415,352 shares of Class A common stock at a yet-unspecified date. A statement from Facebook reads: "Facebook, Inc. is ...

Floyd "Money" Mayweather will tell you he's the greatest boxer in the world, and with a professional record of 42-0 he may well be right. But what's not up for debate is whether any other fighter is within punching distance of him in the digital ring...

Fresh off debuting a mobile app, Klout has just released a new version of its application programming interface (API) in response to demand from developers. More than 6,000 third-party developers -- up from 2,000 last year -- have used the original A...

Comedy Central After a year-long hiatus, Zach Galifianakis is not only bringing Between Two Ferns back -- he's airing it on television for the first time. The special sketch, Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York will serve as a precursor to Com...

Yahoo will be introducing a web series next month that pokes fun of dating reality show The Bachelor, with the help of a whole lineup of comedic actors from Ben Stiller to Kristen Bell. The web series called Burning Love -- which will debut on Monday...

NFL legend Junior Seau died at his Southern California home on Wednesday. He was 43 years old and mortally wounded by a gunshot to the chest when his girlfriend discovered him unconscious, according to reports. Seau's death is being investigated as a...

Likes and dislikes are the social capital of YouTube. Great videos garner hundreds of thousands of Likes. Unloved ones receive almost as many dislikes. This lucre, so easy to give out but so hard to earn, is what drives YouTube content creators and m...

More teens are using video chats to interact and communicate with friends, thanks in part to the adoption growth of apps such as Skype, Googletalk and iChat, according to a new study. A report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Pro...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to make at least $846 million when the company goes public. Facebook announced on Thursday that it will sell 337.4 million shares at a price range of $28 to $35 in its initial public offering. According...

What will the next iPhone look like? Recent iPhone rumors have suggested it might be made of futuristic material known as LiquidMetal. That got us wondering how such a handset might appear. Enter designer Antoine Brieux, who took the idea of a Liquid...

Professional social network LinkedIn on Thursday snagged presentation-sharing platform SlideShare for $118.75 million. Often described as the "YouTube for slideshows," SlideShare has let people store and share presentations as well as documents, PDFs...

The Elder Scrolls franchise, lauded for its expansive single-player campaigns and rich fantasy worlds, will jump into online gaming in 2013. According to a sneak preview in Game Informer magazine, Bethesda Softworks says The Elder Scrolls Online will...

Ever eat something that doesn't taste as good as it looks? Luckily, a lioness named Kya at the Oregon Zoo didn't have a chance to find out how this little boy tasted. The lioness was going after a zebra -- which was actually a one-year-old named Jack...

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